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Name: Larry Niven
Birth Date: April 30, 1938
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Laurence Van Cott Niven
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Four major themes are central to Larry Niven's writing. The first of these concerns human relations with alien civilization, especially the first human contact. Often a human character will gain insight into individual aliens or even into alien...
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Biography of Larry Niven
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Larry Niven writes science fiction with an emphasis on hard science. In his Hugo and Nebula award-winning book Ringworld, Niven constructed an enormous hoop-shaped artificial planet a million miles wide and with a diameter of 190 million miles. All the...


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Laurence van Cott Niven (born 30 April 1938 ) is an American science fiction author, most famous as the author of Ringworld (1970), his " Known Space " stories, and Niven's laws . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 A Gift From Earth (1968) 1.2 Ringworld (1970) 1.3...


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Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles, California) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction,...


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Niven, Larry. Scatterbrain.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
07/01/2005: 180 words, approx. 1 pages
NIVEN, Larry. Scatterbrain. Tor. 327p. c2003. 0-765-34047-X. $6.99. SA The prolific Niven here gathers a gallimaufry of his writings, both fiction and nonfiction. There are excerpts from two of his novels, Destiny's Road and The Ringworld Throne; three short stories by him;...
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The Independent - London
Obituary: Niven Boyd
02/09/2001: 545 words, approx. 2 pages
CHARACTER ACTORS are the backbone of screen drama, and Niven Boyd took dozens of roles in 25 years on television and in the cinema, most notably as villains, doctors, policemen or soldiers. He will be best remembered for two unsavoury characters in ITV's...
 


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